Word: hillbillyism
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Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who recently has had the unusual experience of having to listen to some unvarnished New England backtalk, painted an extraordinary word picture of his tormentor. Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Said Gromyko: "The U.S. representative has not been speaking, but...
By discarding all subplots, Bomhard is able to tell the story of each opera in 30 minutes. He pays as much attention to the acting and sets as to the singing ("Opera must not only be good music, but also good theater"). Station WAVE-TV gets an encouraging mail response...
For $20 a week each, the girls were on daily call to sing everything from hillbilly tunes to a soporific midnight show called Moon River. Then one day Bandleader Tony Pastor came through Cincinnati on the lookout for a new singer. The Clooney Sisters, swimming in a local pool when...
Up from the Ozarks and onto the airwaves has come the greatest flock of hillbilly and western stars ever assembled. Its the "Hayloft Jamboree of '53 on WCOP," as the announcer joyously introduces it. For a full hour, the characters chew over drawls, and flawlessly read down-to-earth humor...
"Mrs. Bragg's skinny little boy Nelson" is master of ceremonies and his flunky Uncle Everett is the jockey. He introduces numbers in an indefinable dialect, inevitably ending with, "Thanks just a whole lot, there -- (insert name of star). The music itself is a baffling medley of guitars, fiddles, violins...